In a precedential decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today vacated and remanded a district court decision that invalidated all claims of Vascular Solutions and Teleflex LLC’s (Teleflex) patent infringement suit against Medtronic, Inc. In an opinion authored by Judge Amos Mazzant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, sitting by designation, the CAFC said the district court erred when it found the asserted claims were “mutually exclusive” and indefinite and that claiming is not restricted in the way the district court concluded.

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